Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-05-18-Speech-2-024"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-05-18"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100518.5.2-024"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, across Europe, governments and public institutions are facing up to the need for cuts, but this Parliament continues to live in a fairytale world. I hear fine words about the need for savings and efficiency, but the budget of over EUR 1.7 billion in 2011 is an increase of nearly 6%. This is totally unacceptable. We should be talking about massive savings, not increases. There are many ways in which this could be done. For a start, we should be cutting unnecessary waste and expenditure. This House should demand that Council end the Strasbourg circus and save annual costs of over EUR 200 million. A further EUR 50 million would be saved every year by closing the European Parliament offices in each of our countries. We must streamline the bureaucracy: the number of officials employed by Parliament has increased by 14% to 6 000 in just three years. Any other organisation in straitened times would meet new priorities with compensating reductions elsewhere. We seem to think that we live in a different world. We need to take the necessary steps to bring about real changes and real cuts in Parliament’s budget."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Geoffrey Van Orden (ECR )."1
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